Google Search Console

search.google.com/search-console
SEO
Weekend Project

Improve your performance on Google Search

How to Replace Google Search Console

Overview

Google Search Console is a free tool that helps you measure your site's search traffic and performance, fix issues, and optimize your content to shine in Google Search results. It provides tools and reports to analyze your site's impressions, clicks, and position on Google Search, while helping you submit content for indexing and receive alerts about site issues.

Features

10 features across 5 categories

Diagnostics(1)

URL Inspection Tool

Get detailed crawl, index, and serving information about your pages directly from the Google index

Indexing(2)

Index Coverage

Review your index coverage to make sure that Google has the freshest view of your site

Sitemap Submission

Submit sitemaps and individual URLs for crawling to ensure Google has the freshest view of your site

Also in: Logikcull

Monitoring(2)

Issue Alerts

Receive email alerts when Google identifies issues on your site and see which URLs are affected

Issue Resolution Tracking

Tell Google when you've fixed identified issues on your site

Performance(2)

AMP Monitoring

Monitor, test, and track your AMP pages with Search Console tools and reports

Core Web Vitals Reports

Monitor your site's Core Web Vitals on mobile and desktop with Search Console reports

Also in: Jira Service Management, Hugging Face, WordPress.com

Reporting(3)

Performance Reports

Access performance reports in Search Console to analyze your search appearance

Rich Results Monitoring

Monitor and improve rich results for recipes, jobs, or other structured data on Google Search

Search Analytics

See which queries bring users to your site and analyze your site's impressions, clicks, and position on Google Search

Also in: monday.com, Smartsheet, 1Password

Cost Calculator

Pricing data not available for Google Search Console. Check their website for current pricing.

Build vs Buy

Should you build a Google Search Console alternative or buy the subscription? Estimate based on 10 features.

Buy Google Search Console

Better Value
Monthly costContact Sales
3-year totalVaries
Time to deployDays

Build Your Own

Development cost$12,000
Maintenance$180/mo
3-year total$18,480
Dev time~1 months

Buying Google Search Console saves ~$18,480 over 3 years vs building.

Estimates based on 10 features and a BuildScore of 5/5. Actual costs vary.

Integrations

3 known integrations